Ocean Quote by Richard Wilbur Download Open image “All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know” — Richard Wilbur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ocean Shore
I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. — Jon J Muth Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday. — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven;… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you. — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
Life is like the ocean. It can be calm and still or rough and rigid but in the end, it is always beautiful. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
